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There is the Hairston contract too.....$2.5 million this season and next....one would assume that factored in to what they got back?

Vic Sage wrote: Dan Uggla's all like "oh, Freddie Freeman deserves to be there" on Twitter. Shut up, Dan Uggla. Nobody wants to see Freddie Stupid Freeman. i'd rather see Freddie Fender... before the next teardrop falls. lol seriously , I conflate Freeman with Heyward, I am always surprised to see he is white.

Yeah, it got killed at the box office.....I read between making and marketing the movie it cost Disney $375 million.....that's just absurd, but it seems to be the trend now....

bmfc1 wrote: Barf: "Even a meltdown shows how special Mo is" http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/even_meltdown_shows_how_special_z6vsCvR8BMYTz4C0zosOJN WOW, that really is pathetic from Vaccaro .....

My son and I went to see it yesterday , I gave it 6 minions , my 5yo loved it though....lots of laughs with the minions and the chicken and El Macho ....

Swan Swan H wrote: I saw Trading Murphy at the Guinness Fleadh in 1998. They were on between the Saw Doctors and Billy Bragg. Saw Doctors , talk about a blast from the past......wow Murphy might be on the N17 eh?

Hefner while not the playboy of the staff is certainly letting it all hang out these last few months, he is really showing his assets, dare I say he turns me on when he straddles the well worn rubber.

It's incumbent on the MFY's to trade for huge contracts, please make it happen.

Gosh, David is swell.......... seriously, we are fortunate to have him.

and with his arms extended and his nervous system activated....

Fran Healy IIRC was a master practitioner of obviously .

Attendance down, YES ratings way down...good stuff Through 41 home games this season, the Yankees have drawn nearly 106,000 fewer fans than at this point a year ago, a 6.1 percent drop that is almost twice as large as the overall decline in baseball. More than half a dozen other teams have had bigger attendance losses than the Yankees, but without exception they are teams that went from good to bad, at least for a while, or from bad to worse, or that play in cities without a notably intense fan base. The Yankees do not fit in any of those categories, which makes their attendance falloff more intriguing. And while they also experienced a decrease in attendance the last two years, the one this season is more pronounced. Even more sobering for the team: the television ratings for their games have plummeted. Through June 25, the ratings on their YES Network were down 40 percent to 2.52 from 4.17 at this point last season, and from 4.08, 4.50 and 4.72 in the three previous seasons, with each rating point this year representing 73,843 households. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/sports/baseball/with-fewer-stars-at-yankee-stadium-fewer-fans-are-watching.html?pagewanted=1

Seems like part his job is to put arses in seats ... After DePaoli joined the Pirates, the club saw baseball's fourth-largest percent increase in attendance between 2009 and 2012 they also had a bunch of young exciting players......best of luck, a packed CF is fun.

Good stuff, you'll love it.....

Zack's confidhance might be shaken up a little , his next start should be away to the Brewers, awful team , losers of 5 in a row.

I like what you say about Harvey....LaRoche said yesterday Harvey might be the best pitcher he has ever faced....

Heyman et al taking delight on Twitter telling us how Wheeler isn't Harvey etc, not ready yyybbb...this after demanding he come up ...perhaps I too am guilty in that demand. Didn't get to see any of the game, what was his main problem?, some reports suggest his fastball went from 97 to 92ish by the time he was pulled.

We have friends and family staying with us from Puerto Rico, I surprised Hommy and his daughter with tix for this game. Hommy is a huge baseball fan(Cards) and regularly goes to games in PR. Anyway he was stoked to be going to his first MLB park and to see Harvey . I got us good seats in left field section 337(rain didn't bother us), 50% off because i voted for the ASG,we had a blast, as it rained our section filled up, two people from Ireland happened to sit next to us and in front 6 lads from Argentina , everyone was in to it, great craic was being had........and then .....fucking wow.... you could feel the life and good vibes being sucked out of the place , and then anger, we left our seats after they tied so I could show them the stadium and get some ribs...I don't think I have ever felt a numbness and seething anger as last night, just walking around by Shea bridge you could feel it. A real sense of disgust too. We had a great night but that should have been a win.

Forecast looks troubling?

I think Ron was great last night in talking about Wheeler, it was apparent to him that Wharten had Wheeler throwing less fastballs and more of speed stuff, he thought this was a disservice to Wheeler, he felt as a pitcher he is not polished enough(yet) to mess with him like that. Ron and Gary and I would guess most Mets fans wondered why they would change what worked in Atlanta? Anyway, I love his fastball, he throws it with such ease....I think he is going to be fine.

I'll get killed for this but incorporating Twitter with the forum would be a good thing I think. I find I post about the game on Twitter but not here, mostly because I am using my phone....perhaps a #CPF hashtag? I interact with several #cpf members on Twitter during the games, it's great craic.

But they don't have us in sophistication, because we are New Yorkers.....

Yeah Sox look as bad as the Mets......similar record. I thought it was very interesting in the early goings to hear Ron and Gary talk about how Wheeler was pitching very differently in this game then in his debut. Ron ripped it, all the off-speed stuff Wheeler was throwing, why change what was successful?makes no sense he said and it did Wheeler a disservice .....Gary then jumped in with " they did the same thing to Harvey last year". So, that comes from the front office or is Wharten thinking for himself? Assuming it is true btw.

His Opening Day granny, being responsible for the brief resurrection of Christopher Walken's career.

Centerfield wrote: Wow, this is awful. Isn't a partially torn rotator cuff one of those things they say you can pitch with, or rehabilitate without surgery, but inevitably leads to surgery, being out for the season, then coming back but never being as effective as you were before it? I feel like we've been down this road with the two Pedros (Astacio and Martinez). This